REGIONAL PECULIARITIES OF THE FARMERS' ADAPTATION TO THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO FARM MANAGEMENT

Abstract

This paper is to consider the second aspect of the farmers' adaptation the farm management system. In sand dune areas, such as Kashima and Niigata, farmers take a new capitalintensive way of farming. In paddy areas, on the other hand, such as Tagonoura, Shinminato and so on, they almost failed to transform their farm management systems and are now in peril of a complete decline of agriculture, accompanying a serious outflow of labor from those areas. As a rule, the modern, industrial developments are different in character from other gen-eral industrialization, and agriculture is greatly influenced by the modern industrial develop-ments. The method of purchasing land for industrial use and the existence of an agricultural policy play decisive roles. It is now able to point out the following two factors which prescribe the regional peculi-arities of agricultural adaptations on the part of the farmers living in the areas of industrial developments such as Kashima. 1) Internal factors: individual condition of each area involved in industrial developments, especially, scale of land possession, natural condition and mode of use of land influenced by natural condition. 2) External factors: methods of purchasing land for industrial use, and administrative conditions such as agricultural policy.